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Khomeini's Background & His British Father
With all bets off, the Iranian reformers have now struck at the heart
of the revolution and are insisting on an inquiry into the
disappearance of Imam (Ayatollah) Musa Sadr, some 25-years ago, during a
visit to Libya. The Iranian-born leader of the Lebanese Shia, Imam
Musa Sadr, was revered and respected above all others in the Shia
world. He refused to accept Khomeini as an Ayatollah. With the
influence Imam Musa Sadr enjoyed, he became an insurmountable obstacle
to Khomeini’s political plans, and of those who supported the overthrow
of the Shah and needed a despot like Khomeini to be their cat’s paw.
Imam (Ayatollah) Musa Sadr’s mysterious disappearance in Libya - his
body was never found- opened the way for Khomeini to invade Iran, which
accurately describes the action of a foreigner like Khomeini taking
over a country in which he (Khomeini) was neither born nor had any
Persian blood in his veins at all, paternally or maternally.
While
one devout Iranian in California speaks of Khomeini reverently as a
great man, similar to Hitler, other less friendly Persians liken him to
an invader like Genghis Khan the Mongol scourge.
The cornerstone and founder of the Islamic Revolution of Iran was
Ayatollah Khomeini and the structure which he put in place. However,
there is compelling evidence that Khomeini was never an Iranian in the
first place and had no right to impose his policies on the Iranian
people. Nor was his elevation to the title of ayatollah anything more
than a political, face-saving expediency to prevent his being hanged
for treason in 1964. Considerable effort was made in 1979 to eradicate
evidence of any record of either Khomeini's non-Iranian origins and the
source of his use of the title of Ayatollah.
One
of the first actions which Khomeini took, within hours of his return
to Iran after the Shah left, was to execute two prominent men who were
living proof of his origin and also of his false Ayatollah status. One
of these was Gen. Hassan Pakravan, Head of SAVAK, the Imperial Iranian
national intelligence and security organization.
Furthermore he immediately tried to assassinate the highly-respected
Ayatollah Shariatmadari, who, with Ayatollah Golpayegani, had in 1964
granted Khomeini the false title. They had agreed to allow Khomeini,
then literally awaiting death on charges of treason, to be called an
Ayatollah to save his life: it was forbidden to execute an Ayatollah.
This took place in 1964 at the urging of the British Ambassador to Iran
and Gen. Pakravan, when a face-saving legal reason had to be found not
to hang Khomeini for treason. It is known that Pakravan had fought
hard to avoid Khomeinis execution at that time.
Later, when the 1979 assassination attempt failed against Shariatmadari,
Shariatmadari, far higher in the religious hierarchy than Khomeini,
was placed, incommunicado and under house arrest, without the right to
preach or receive visitors other than a handful of close relatives,
whose anti-Khomeini statements could be easily impugned as biased.
Few contest that Khomeini’s mother was a Kashmiri Indian, but even fewer
Iranians or otherwise know his fathers origins or his real name. The
late Iranian Senator Moussavi, who represented Khuzestan Province in
Southern Iran, at the time of the monarchy, knew Khomeini’s father and
his four sons well, looked after their needs, used his influence to
obtain their Iranian identity cards with fictitious dates and places of
birth to avoid military service. Sen. Moussavi died for this help, on
Khomeini's personal orders, immediately on Khomaini return from France
after the 1979 coup.
SAVAK chief Gen. Pakravan, the man who saved Khomeini's life in 1964,
was taken that same night onto the roof of his house and shot to death
for having compiled a complete background file on Khomeini. The SAVAK
background file still exists, as a senior SAVAK official, who defected
and joined SAVAMA (the clerics equivalent of the SAVAK) took possession
of it. This same man was reportedly head of SAVAMA in the US for quite
some time, and sources indicate that he has kept the file for a rainy
day.
Why did Khomeini return to Iran with such a bloodthirsty mind set? It
seems clear that it was to exact the revenge which he said he would
have. Prior to his return to Iran in 1979, Khomeini openly stated that
he would kill as many Iranians. He considered everyone in Iran guilty
in advance as there were hairs on the head of his son, killed in a car
accident, but in his mind killed by Iranian authorities.
Unable to provide an acceptable paternal background for Khomeini, a
story was concocted to link his paternal heritage to that of his
Kashmiri Indian mother and introduced an Indian-born father (also from
Kashmir) but of Iranian heritage. In fact, no such person existed. But
someone with similar and misleading characteristics certainly did,
which could lend credence to this fiction of an Indian father.
Khomeini’s real father, William Richard Williamson, was born in Bristol,
England, in 1872 of British parents and lineage. This detail is based
on first-hand evidence from a former Iranian employee of the Anglo-
Iranian Oil Company (later known as British Petroleum- BP), who worked
with and met the key players of this saga. This fact was supported by
the lack of a denial in 1979 by Col. Archie Chisholm, a BP political
officer and former editor at The Financial Times, when interviewed on
the subject at his home in County Cork, Ireland, by a British
newspaper.
The then-78-year old Chisholm stated: I knew Haji [as Williamson was
later known] well; he worked for me. He certainly went native but
whether he is Khomeini’s father I could not say. Would not an outright,
ridiculing denial have been the natural response, were there no truth
to the British paternity? From someone who knew Haji [and thus the
truth] well?
Chisholm obviously wished to avoid a statement leading to political
controversy or possible personal retribution in the very year Khomeini
took over in Iran. Nor as a former, experienced political officer
himself would he be willing to drag Britain into the new Middle East
conflict. But neither was he prepared to provide an outright lie
instead of his no comment.
How it all happened:
A stocky, handsome, dark-haired Bristol boy, Richard Williamson ran away
to sea at the age of 13 as a cabin boy, on a ship bound for Australia.
However, he jumped ship before he got there. Little is known about him
until he showed up, at the age of 20, in Aden at the Southern end of
the Arabian Peninsula in South Yemen, where he joined the local police
force.
His good looks soon had Sultan Fazl bin-Ali, ruler of Lahej, persuading
him to quit the police force to live with him. Richard later left him
for another Sheikh, Yousef Ibrahim, a relative of the Al- Sabah family,
which rules Kuwait today.
A few points should be remembered about the Persian Gulf and Arabian
Peninsula area at that time. Regional countries like Lebanon, Iraq,
Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and so forth did not exist as sovereign
entities and were artificially created about 70 years ago by the
British and French governments when they partitioned the area. Iran, or
Persia as it was called, was soon to be controlled by Russian Cossacks
in the North and the British Army in the South, although technically
it remained an independent monarchy under the largely absentee Qajar
dynasty.
British military presence in Iran was under Lt.-Col. Sykes (later Sir
Percy Sykes), based in Shiraz, but politically controlled by Sir Arnold
Wilson in Khorramshahr (then called Mohammareh) with assistance from
E. Elkington in Masjid-Suleiman and Dr. Young, based in Ahwaz. All
three were cities in Khuzestan Province, which was later represented by
Senator Moussavi. Col. T.E. Lawrence, who gained fame as Lawrence of
Arabia, operated out of Basra in Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Khorramshahr
during this same period.
Oilfields, far beyond the technological capability of the Arab tribes
(or Persia) to develop or appreciate as a valuable commodity, were
being discovered and exploited by the British, including via the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, formed to siphon off oil from Khuzestan
Province in Southern Iran.
Kuwait, on the other side of the Persian Gulf was still not a country at
the time. As the major player in the Middle East oil industry, Britain
had to exert influence and control through its political and oil
personnel. Haji Abdullah Williamson became one of these in 1924 when he
joined British Petroleum as political officer. He retired under that
same name in 1937, at the age of 65. Earlier, in what is now Kuwait,
Richard Williamson had very quickly converted to Islam and adopted the
first name of Abdullah. Family names were still unusual and son of the
son of or son of a type of worker or craftsman was still commonly used
to identify people. For 14 years he had lived among the Bedouin tribes
on the Arabian Peninsula and in 1895 and 1898 he went on pilgrimages to
Mecca, took on the rightful title of Haji and took on his first
benefactors name of Fazl, adding Zobeiri to it as a distinguisher.
Thus, William Richard Williamson became known as Haji Abdullah Fazl
Zobeiri.
During his service with British Petroleum in the Persian Gulf, Haji
Abdullah took his vacations in Indian Kashmir, to rest from the
relentless Gulf heat and in this timeframe married at least seven times
to Arab and Indian women each under Muslim marriage rituals. He had 13
children of whom seven were boys and the rest girls with most of the
children dying in early childhood. His repeated Kashmir excursions and
Indian wives and use of the name Abdullah Fazl Zobeiri probably give
rise to the Kashmir Indian father misconception.
With dark-haired Haji Abdullah a fanatically devout Muslim, a
characteristic he imposed on his children, this fervent religious
attitude and Arab nomenclature would not normally be an expected
combination for a foreigner, especially an Englishman. He insisted his
four surviving sons attend religious school in Najaf (in Iraq) under
the tutelage of Ayatollahs Yazdi (meaning of the city of Yazd) and
Shirazi (of the city of Shiraz). Two of them, Hindizadeh (meaning Indian
born) and Passandideh (meaning pleasing or approved) studied well and
eventually became ayatollahs in their own right.
The third boy, a troublesome young man, failed to make his mark in Najaf
and went to the Iranian holy city of Qom, where he studied under
Ayatollah Boroujerdi. When family names became a requirement by law
under His Majesty Reza Shah, the young man chose the city of his
residence, Khomein, as the designator and took on the name Khomeini
(meaning: “from Khomein city”).
The fourth son hated theology and went across the Persian Gulf to Kuwait
and opened up two gas (petrol) stations using the paternal family name
of Haji Ali Williamson, though it is unclear if he ever performed the
Haj pilgrimage. This in itself links Khomeini through that brother with
Haji Williamson. Why, otherwise, would Rouhallah Khomeinis undisputed
brother use the Williamson family name? The patriarch of this brood,
Haji Abdullah Fazl Zobeiri (aka Haji Abdullah Williamson in BP), was
thrown out of Iran by Reza Shah along with three other British
political officers for anti-Iranian activity and joined his son in
Kuwait. Here he took on the duties of Oil Distribution for the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
With his longstanding contacts in the Arab world and his Muslim
religion, he forced a 50/50 agreement between US oil interests in
Kuwait and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company as well as in 1932 pursuing
the exclusive exploration rights for British Petroleum in Abu Dhabi.
His lack of a formal education forced British Petroleum to send out
Archie H. T. Chisholm (see above), a senior executive, to conclude the
Abu Dhabi contract and together with Haji Abdullah’s political
influence they overcame competition from Major Frank Holmes, Sheikh
Hussein and Mohammad Yateen to successfully land the exclusive
contract. Chisholm, as he said, got to know Khomeini’s father well.
Back in Iran again in 1960, Khomeini saw an opportunity to exact revenge
for his father having been thrown out of Iran and to impose his
Islamic fundamentalist philosophy onto an Iran struggling with budget
problems, caused mostly by its oil being in the control of foreign oil
companies, which decided not Iran how much oil the country was allowed
to produce and at what price it had to be sold.
With his own and his family's theological background, Khomeni began to
foment an anti-monarchy revolt through the mosques, which by 1964
resulted in imposition of martial law and finally with his arrest and
his being sentenced to death by hanging. And consequently he was given
the life-saving Ayatollah title which he had not earned.
After formally being exiled to Turkey, Khomeini ended up in Iraq where
he wrote some philosophical and social behavior dissertations which
were so bizarre by religious standards that, where possible, the tracts
were bought up and destroyed by the Iranian Government when he took
over in 1979. The most damning were in Arabic language versions and
then later, cleaner versions appeared as edited translations in Farsi.
Some linguists, who studied his public speeches in 1979 and 1980,
concluded his Farsi vocabulary to be less than 200 words, so not only
did he not have Persian blood, he did not even speak the language. With
the number of Iranians who have died because of him and his successors
over the past 25 years going into the hundreds of thousands, if not
well over a million if the death toll from the eight-year Iran-Iraq war
is included, this Anglo-Indian may have had no love or compassion for
Iranians either.
In the Iran Air aircraft flying Khomeini back from France to Tehran in
early 1979, with cameras rolling, a journalist asked: What do you feel
about returning to Iran? He replied: Nothing! The question was
repeated, and again he replied: Nothing!
Summary of Khomeini's Background
1.
In 1964 Ayatollah Shariatmadari and Ayatollah Golpayegani gave
Khomeini the title of Ayatollah. Reportedly, they had done this to save
Khomeini's life, as Khomeini was facing a charge of treason against
the Shah. And reportedly it was the UK ambassador who had urged that
Khomeini be saved.
2. Shariatmadari was higher in the religious hierarchy than Khomeini. In
1979, after Khomeini took over Iran, he placed Shariatmadari under
house arrest.
3. Reportedly, Khomeini was not Iranian. He "was neither born (in Iran)
nor had any Persian blood in his veins at all, paternally or
maternally." Khomeini's mother was a Kashmiri Indian. Reportedly, a
story was invented that Khomeini had a Kashmiri Indian father with
Iranian origins. The Iranian Senator Moussavi knew Khomeini's real
father. Reportedly Khomeini had Moussavi killed.
4. Reportedly, Khomeini's real father, was William Richard Williamson,
born in Bristol, England, in 1872 of British parents and lineage. A
witness to this was a former Iranian employee of the Anglo- Iranian Oil
Company (later BP), who knew the Khomeini family. In 1979, when Col.
Archie Chisholm, a BP political officer and former editor at The
Financial Times, was asked about this, he neither confirmed nor denied
the story.
William Richard Williamson's biography was written in the early 1950s,
by Stanton Hope, a British Journalist and writer who had met Williamson
in his home near Basra in the late 1940s. The book title is: Arabian
Adventurer: the Story of Haji Williamson
5. Reportedly, Richard Williamson, at the age of 20, was working in South Yemen in the local police force.
"His good looks soon had Sultan Fazl bin-Ali, ruler of Lahej, persuading
him to quit the police force to live with him. Richard later left him
for another Sheikh, Yousef Ibrahim, a relative of the Al- Sabah family,
which rules Kuwait today."
6. In Iran at this time, the British were exploiting the oilfields.
Williamson, now a Muslim, joined British Petroleum as political
officer. He called himself Haji Abdullah Fazl Zobeiri.
7. Williamson took holidays in Kashmir and married at least seven times
to Arab and Indian women. His sons attended religious schools.
Reportedly, one son went to the Iranian holy city of Qom and took the
name Khomeini.
8. In the early 1960s, Khomeini began to plot against the Shah. In 1964
Khomeini was sentenced to death. By becoming an Ayatollah, his life was
saved.
9. Reportedly, in 1979, Khomeini was flown from France to Iran, with the
help of the British Intelligence Service, MI6. He took over Iran.
In 1979, Imam (Ayatollah) Mussa Sadr disappeared during a visit to
Libya. Imam Mussa Sadr was the Iranian-born leader of the Lebanese Shia
and he "was revered and respected above all others in the Shia world."
Why was the Shah of Iran toppled by the CIA and MI6?
The mainstream media would like us to believe that the Shah was
overthrown by People Power and that the CIA and MI6 were taken by
surprise. However, there is evidence that the CIA and MI6 toppled the
Shah because he had become too much of a nationalist, like Egypt’s
President Jamal Abdul-Naser, and was not following instructions on oil
or even opium.
The CIA did not want left-wing democrats taking over from the Shah as
they might not be easy to control. So, reportedly, the CIA allowed the
Ayatollahs to take over.
Radio Free Iran claimed that while at Qom, the Ayatollah Khomeini
received a "monthly stipend from the British, and he is in constant
contact with his masters, the British."
On 19 January 1980, the International Herald Tribune reported that the
Shah had said, two years before he was overthrown, that he had heard
from two different sources connected with oil companies that the regime
in Iran would change.
‘We believe that there was a plan to ensure less oil was offered to the
world markets in order to bring down the price (of oil). One country
was to be chosen for the sacrifice... It seems that the country chosen
to drop its oil production was mine’ said the Shah.
According to the Guardian: “Shah- Oil Companies Helped to Oust Him”
The Shah's nationalist policies were making him more popular in Iran and
making his country more independent and more powerful. This worried
the CIA and MI6.
1. The Shah bought land from the upper classes and, along with the
crown's own land, sold it back cheaply to tenant farmers. Over one and a
half million people became land owners, thus ending the old feudal
system.
2. The Shah allowed women the right to vote. He brought an end to the wearing of the veil.
3. He developed plans for a $90 billion nuclear power program.
4. The Shah signed petroleum agreements with ENI, the Italian oil company.
5. He began to close down the opium industry. This had been created during the days of British influence.
Former intelligence officer, Dr John Coleman, considers opium to be of
prime importance in the toppling of the Shah (Conspirators’ Hierarchy:
The Story of the Committee of 300 - 6). Dr Coleman is sometimes
described as being a conspiracy theorist.
Coleman believes that the U.S. government toppled the Shah of Iran. He writes:
Why was the Shah deposed...?
In a word, because of DRUGS. The Shah had clamped down and virtually put
an end to the immensely lucrative opium trade being conducted out of
Iran by the British. At the time that the Shah took over in Iran, there
were already one million opium/heroin addicts.
This the British would not tolerate, so they sent the United States to
do their dirty work for them in terms of the “special relationship”
between the two countries.
When Khomeini took over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, arms sales by the
United States, which had begun with the Shah, were not discontinued...
After 1984, Khomeini’s liberal attitude toward opium had increased the
number of addicts to 2 million, according to United Nations and World
Health Organization statistics.
Both President Carter and his successor, Ronald Reagan, willingly and
with full knowledge of what was at stake, went on supplying arms to
Iran even while American hostages languished in captivity...
The arms trade with Iran was sealed at a meeting between Cyrus Vance...
and Dr. Hashemi, which resulted in the U.S. Air Force beginning an
immediate airlift of arms to Iran, carried on even at the height of the
hostage crisis the arms came from U.S. Army stockpiles in Germany and
some were even flown directly from the United States with re-fuelling
stops at the Azores.
This is The Real Story of Khomaini which the Iranian Regime hides from whole world.
